The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Aug 17, 2021
BACKGROUND: The unconstrained master devices have emerged as attractive alternatives to the existing linkage-based counterparts. However, the conventional unconstrained master device's manipulation methods have several disadvantages in efficiency and...
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Aug 16, 2021
Human-robot collaboration poses many challenges where humans and robots work inside a shared workspace. Robots collaborating with humans indirectly bring difficulties for accomplishing co-carrying tasks. In our work, we focus on co-carrying an object...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 9, 2021
Aiming at the crossing problem of complex terrain, to further improve the ability of obstacles crossing, this paper designs and develops an all-terrain wheel-legged hybrid robot (WLHR) with strong adaptability to the environment. According to the ope...
Biomedical physics & engineering express
Aug 9, 2021
This technical note discloses our implementation of a six degree-of-freedom (DOF) high-precision robotic phantom on a commercially available industrial robot manipulator. These manipulators are designed to optimize their set point tracking accuracy a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 7, 2021
Skeleton-based human action recognition has made great progress, especially with the development of a graph convolution network (GCN). The most important work is ST-GCN, which automatically learns both spatial and temporal patterns from skeleton sequ...
Journal of biophotonics
Aug 3, 2021
Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a widely applied tool to image microvascular networks with high spatial resolution and sensitivity. Due to limited imaging speed, the artifacts caused by tissue motion can severely compromise visuali...
IEEE transactions on medical imaging
Jul 30, 2021
For the clinical assessment of cardiac vitality, time-continuous tomographic imaging of the heart is used. To further detect e.g., pathological tissue, multiple imaging contrasts enable a thorough diagnosis using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). For...
ACS nano
Jul 26, 2021
The increasing population of the elderly and motion-impaired people brings a huge challenge to our social system. However, the walking stick as their essential tool has rarely been investigated into its potential capabilities beyond basic physical su...
Journal of biomechanics
Jul 24, 2021
Human body center of mass location plays an essential role in physical therapy, especially in investigating a subject's capability to maintain balance. However, its estimation can be a very complex, costly, and time-consuming process. To overcome the...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 23, 2021
We use the recent advances in Deep Learning to solve an underwater motion planning problem by making use of optimal control tools-namely, we propose using the Deep Galerkin Method (DGM) to approximate the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDE that can be used ...